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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460878503321

Titolo

From stigma to assertion : untouchability, identity and politics in early and modern India / / edited by Mikael Aktor and Robert Deiege ; consultant, Tabish Khair

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Copenhagen, Denmark : , : Museum Tusculanum Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

87-635-3635-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

305.5/6880954

Soggetti

Dalits - Government policy - India

Dalits - Legal status, laws, etc - India

Caste - India

Electronic books.

India Social conditions Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

""Frontpage""; ""Titlepage""; ""Colophone ""; ""Table of contents""; ""Preface""; ""1. Robert Deliège: INTRODUCTION. Is There Still Untouchability in India?""; ""2. Mikael Aktor: UNTOUCHABILITY INBRAHMINICAL LAW BOOKS. Ritual and Economic Control""; ""3. Eleanor Zelliot: THE EARLY VOICES OF UNTOUCHABLES. The Bhakti Saints""; ""4. Jocelyn Clarke: UNTOUCHABILITY AND THE INDIAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT""; ""5. Andrew Wyatt: DALIT THEOLOGY AND THE POLITICS OF UNTOUCHABILITY AMONG THE INDIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCHES""; ""6. Simon Charsley: UNTOUCHABLE IDENTITY AND ITS RECONSTRUCTION""

""7. Kathinka Frøystad: RELEGITIMIZING CASTE DISCRIMINATION IN UTTAR PRADESH. Towards a Post-Mandal Untouchability?""""8. Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky: CASTE AS A POLITICAL TOOL.The Case of the Carmakars of Dharavi(Mumbai)""; ""Contributors""; ""Back cover ""